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When your administration and your cabinet agency is a disaster area, you walk. that's what you're supposed to do. you don't wait for the president to fire you. you're not a civil servant who has rights under the law to keep their job. he ain't a headless nail, and yet shinseki's acting like one, like he's got some right to that job. that's not the way it works in politics. you're there at the pleasure of the president and if you do your job right, you keep it, but if you don't do your job, you accept the resignation that comes to you naturally, don't have to fight, you know, cling to office li...

>> what's the first step here, get rid of him and move on, or move on and keep him? >> we're asking our members that question right now, chris, we're member driven, know this is a big decision for the president, but i agree with chuck, who is the next one in line? >> okay, thank you. well said by both you guys. thank you for the intelligent viewing of this whole thing. breaking tonight, chuck todd and derek bennett, thanks so much speaking for the veterans. coming up, let obama be obama. the president's forceful defense of his foreign policy. gone is the idea that the united states needs to ...

faced a waiting time of over 100 days were recorded at waiting less than a quarter of that time for attention. bottom line, the worst stories of long delayed treatment and deliberate coverup have been shown to be true, as "the new york times" is reporting late today, "the report validates that employees in phoenix kept an off the books waiting list or used other artifices to cloak long waiting lines many veterans faced for medical care." so it's come in bad. is he going to do what he made clear he was going to do, is the commander in chief going to issue a command or not? john mccain...

Sounds very much like he continues to have the pleasure of the president. he also is very personally attached to this issue as a veteran himself, but more importantly, general shinseki didn't bring these problems with him. >> do you want him out or in, derek, what do you want? >> not question whether he's in or out, but let's fix the va. >> what's the first step here, get rid of him and move on, or move on and keep him? >> we're asking our members that question right now, chris, we're member driven, know this is a big decision for the president, but i agree with chuck, who is the next one in l...

inspector's general report on that agency. there is going to be accountability, the president said in stern words, if that report came out bad for the va and the people running it. the president predicted also ominously that if general shinseki learns he is doing a bad job running that agency, he, himself, will resign. late today the i.g. report did come in bad, very bad, said veterans at the va hospital who faced a waiting time of over 100 days were recorded at waiting less than a quarter of that time for attention. bottom line, the worst stories of long delayed treatment and delibe...